Grid Wars

The year is 2084. You are an advanced AI devoted to protecting humanity’s data and power grids. An invading AI is trying to capture these grids for nefarious purposes. Can you purge cyberspace of this evil attacker to secure the future for all of humanity?

In this RTS player-vs-AI game, you must:

1. Play in full screen to avoid UI issues
2. Capture grid tiles to generate energy
3. Destroy enemy units to stop their progression.
4. Destroy the enemy base to win the game!

Breaking the Rules (game jam theme): we are breaking the rules of traditional RTS games by introducing a the third person camera and allowing the player to take control of whatever individual unit they choose.

About the AI:

• The AI uses Goal Oriented Action Planning to control the unit and leader actions.
• The map is also procedurally generated with placing the nodes, bases, and leaders.

About Units:

• You are granted only one leader mech unit with enhanced abilities, so protect him to keep this key advantage during the game.
• Each producable unit has an energy cost, so create "Collector" units to harness grid energy
• There are 3 unit types that your base or captured nodes can produce with energy:
  • Collectors (diamond shaped): capture tiles to harness grid energy
    
  • Combat Drones: will seek out enemies and attack
  • Bombs that (ideally) seek and detonate on contact with enemies
    • Bombs can be converted to turrets with a click while controlling the unit
• Click a unit to highlight it to enable the actions:
  • Either click a tile to send it there, or
  • Click the space bar to transition to manual control of a unit
  • Pressing spacebar again will transition back to god view

About Nodes:

• To capture a production node (hex frame with an opening) you must convert all of the tiles around it.
• 3 Holograms will appear for you to choose the unit type you want the node to produce
• Left click on the node to queue the production of the units (indicator lights on nodes will light up)

About your Base:

• Click the hologram on the base to queue the production of that unit type

Your enemies will seek out your leader and your base to destroy them. (Tip: take manual control of a unit (by selecting it and hitting the space bar) to outsmart the opposing AI.)